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~.~. „_, -y SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have seen with great satisfaction Mr. O'Connell's declaration, that, although opposed to the Irish Poor-law, and more than doubtful of its beneficial operation, he feels it to be his duty,. and that of every sensible and honest man, to make every exertion to render it as popular, use ful, and efficient as possible. Connected with this subject we find some very important suggestions in the Report of 1 the Irish Railway Commissioners, to which we have already repeatedly directed the attention of our readers. In the third part of the Report, under the head of " Circum stances peculiar to the present condition of the population of Ireland," the Commissioners observe— " The measure now before Parliament for the relief of the Irish poor is also relied on as a means of enabling the pea santry to buffet and overcome the difficulties of their present and impending position. It is not for us to canvass the merits or probable effects of that Bill. But we ma) observe, that an effective Poor-law must greatly assist the object we aro considering ; and it is therefore most desir. able that its provisions should be carried into effect promptly and fully. It should be recollected, how ever, that the laa►ded interest will be taxed heavily, for the support of the poor under that Act, and it would, therefore, be a most auspicious introduction of so great a change in the social state of the.country, if the pressure of that measure were lightened lity the commencement of some works of great magnitude which should last for a considerable time, and af ford employment to largo numbers of the people in various parts of Ireland.., And if such undertakings were of a nature evidently calculated to open new avenues to industry, and thus hold out a reasoia:ble prospect of constant occupation, even after the period of their completion, the anxiety which, both on grounds of humanity and policy, must attend the adoption of so great a changp, would be allayed, and the most for midable of its immediate incenvenienees be efictually ob The suegesticin of this passag,e is eminently worthy o' the attention otAbe Government. It is evident, from the facts that we late already kid before the public, upon the excellent authority of the Report from which we quote, that the works necessary far completing the system of rail ways recommended by the Commissioners would serve the double purpose of affording present employment to vast num b rs, and throwing open fields of profitable occupation now inn ccsdble and almost unknown. " The immediate of says the Report, " would be to affordextensive relief to a mos' indigent portion of the population, and that in a manner the most acceptable to their feelings, and the most conducive to their moral improvement." It is admirably remarked by Mr. Stanley, in a letter to Mr. Nicholls, " That in all the liews of Ireland that have been placed before the empire, there is a remarkable concurrence in attributing the poverty which exists to the want of continuous employment for the pop ilation." And the Report most truly is:rids, that "to the want of coo/in/roes employment, and of adequate re muneration when employed, may be treed the cause not only of the poverty of the Irish people, but in a great mea sure, also, of that heedless improvidence, and of those ha bits of lassitude and indolence which it may possib'y require years of a better system to eradicate wholly from their character. In the great importance of the principle aeon /lir:city we concur fully with the able document before us. What is most wanting in Ireland is the formation of habits. We have teen fle excellent effects of a continuous system of vigerous and impartial Government in the striking progress that has been made, in the space of three years, tow, rd the fez matioa of habits of tranquillity and ores. r, in piece of habits of turbulence and iryuborilination. here cam be no doubt liut that rzstilis equally striking and equally de sirable would flow fro:n a fov years cootiniimei enipley nomt OF th e 1 : 1 7- e 5 people S -, 111! such cal oF d istry as the weeks re co inn:ceded by the Commissioners seem emineetly calculetel to open. I 1 chits of ludo tr, would unquestionably be found the best asietants and promote:3 of habits of morality and peace. Thus the ex pediency of a large and judicious system of public works in „Leyland is manifestly only a branch of the great and stater policy which ha; been developed in that co.intry with eu icess so remarkable under the present patriotic Administration. In this point of v'e An we repeat fan hope that the Government will glee their earrmevt attention to the enlighte n ed sue ge o tiens of the Re;ort before us. After an admirably drawn picture of the Irish peasantry, to tati.ielt we shall hereafter reeuest the pablle attention, the Coinmissioneri nto.st truly say, "tam it to r,ffo: d the eepear , of present employment to Suc'e a people, and at the saine tine lay the toundalious if their fut.ute prosperity aed imcrovement, is surely an object iverthy of a wise nod great nateett, and will not he epte:eeel from any narrow and -inert-sill:toil views of economy." We sincerely trust it will sot ; and the passage goes cn to give the cogent rea sons fur embarking in the great undertaking of thus im prov'ng the condition of the Irish people t— in The interests. of these eanatries are so inseparably inter. woven, that nothing which concerns one part of the I.3ritc.l KirtOom can b.! alien from till lest. Bat it is the direct in. terest of great Britain that Ireland should he raised, and that as speedily as possible, from its present condition. Mr. Stan ley has shows:, by a very moderate calculation, that if the Irish petsantry were placed, in point of comfort, on a par with those of Great Britain, the result to the public reretme could bss au rnnual incre:se of six millions in the article of excise. This consideration alone ought to silence any objections, on the ground of expense, against affording such public aid as may be quired for these works ; for it gives assurance of enormous profit upon the great contemplated outlay." Io the appendix we find the calculations of Mr. Stanley referred to is this passage. We extract the following : The popul4tion of England and Wales in 1831, the pciiod of the last census, having been 13.899,675, and there havincr been, in 1835, 79,181 dealers in tea, which is now consumed by ail classes in the United Kingdom capable of purchasing it—lreland, to be on a parity with England in this respect, should have had, in 1835, 47,000 dealers in tea, instead of 12,203 ; her population in 1831 having been 7,734,365. " The population of Scotland having been in 1831 only 2,365,930 a little more than one- sixth of the copulation of England, while the dealers in tea licensed there r in 1e35 amounted to 13,396—a little more than one-sixth of the num ber in England and Wales, it follows that Scotland in this re epeet maintains a parity of condition with Englarei ; and that the trade in tea is a fair test of the circumstances of the popu lation of the United Kingdom. " Ireland's disparity of condition, as compared with Scot land, is such that her excise is 6,000 0001. under the amount she would be capable of paying if her population were in equal circumstances with the Scottish population." We will close the present article with one more extract frone the Report, earnestly soliciting the reader's best atten tion to it. The appeal which it contains to the obvious interests of the people of Great Britain cannot be too widely circulated or too anxiously weighed. These are the views of Ireland which it is pleasing and generous to enter tain and to propagate. How different from those which the Tories and their reckless organs delight in spreading through the empire, fomenting discord between two coun tries which nature has joined in the closest ties of physical and moral relationship, libelling and defaming one, and im poverishing and depressing both : On prudential considerations alone, then, we should not hesitate to recommend an immediate and liberal attention to the claims of Ireland for assistance, which cannot be con ferred in any shape more likely to prove beneficial than by en couraging public works of extensive and permanent utility. It is a waste of the public available resources to suffer so large a portion of the empi?•o to lie fallow, or leave it to struggle, by slow advances and with defective means, towards its own im provement, when the judicious aid of the State might quickly ;make it a source of common strength and advantage. The policy of rendering such assistance is unquestionable. It is acknowledged to ba necessary towards a colony, and must be coosidered more so in the case of the United Kingdom, comprehended within its domestic boundaries, where neither the land nor the population can continue to be useless without being hurtful at the same time, and nearly in the same degree. leooking, therefore, at the proposition as a mere esti mate of profit and loss, the balance is clearly in fa vour of a prompt and liberal encouragement, on the part of the Legislature, to whatsoever tends manifestly to call into action tile , great powers and capabilities of this fine country. In even 7 instance where such encouragement has been afforded, even in the construction of a common road, the returns to the State in improved revenue have more than repaid the public outlay ; and, viewed in this light, public as sistance, well directed and appLed with judgment and eco nomy, is in effect a beneficial expenditure of capital, similar in kind to that which a provident lanalerd makes for the im provement of his estate. The only measuae of both should be the assurance of an adequate remuneration. " It were easy to show from the actual state of Ireland that the moral results which may reasonably be expected to flow from an improvement of its social condition should suffice, evert on the low ground of concomitant financial advantages, to fix the attention of the Legislature upon this subject. We need but rifer to the burdensome and costly establishments of soldiery and police which are necessarily maintained for the pr e servation of peace and order, and which , in a really whole some state of society, might be greatly reduced. B e t," the Commtostoners forcibly and eloquently con. elude, " the re are other considerations, equally importing the general we lfare, and being whiciA f. it is more pleasing to dwell a g - reat and nerosity eed lae upoe, as more worthy o t i on _considerations of j ustice, of g e, nli ofgh t a ne lib , rsl a ilci,sua:ie non of rationc ur e s : s r: e ta : concern for the improveme,ntcoantsildecriavti men. In attending to suer) faithless or blind to her own hestta:en3dfodreEarnegstlainnteirnestthse; parnod, were there no commercial advan. jects which we submit for adoption', ineolrieafnfyroimwotmheisheeo,Tvyacctouial.l .enefit to the public treasury, or of tri'outions which the unsettled state tins certainty irnenldreelrainnod a nullity extracts from it, yet the cer country pros; Brous, and diffusing. thefloklei:(s)liND„ of peace and industry. with their attendant fruits o culture amongst its people, ought, as We biaer3aVienoanddouubmotraiti emuld, be cons,ereel an ample recoolPen sc ' --411°1.1ill'i Chronicle. g The extraordinary etaf.einent PF lime Firs t k- Lord it L. .Admiralty in rt ply to th e o b str vafio.:l of the D u Nell;ngton on the 1-Ith instant., with ret.e;','"ce to maul defence , , compels us to lay before the pubic g o'&e n of the real strengthen of our marine as compared with that. of Foreiaa States. It would appear from the official ae r.ounts of the navies of Russia, France, and Egypt, the only ouggrvs.si've Powers in Europe, that a Reece of at least tit) THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1838. general want of interior communication, whether a com prehensive system under the management of Government would not be preferable to separate speculations of cern panies. If the probability were as great that the Govern= ment would do the work honestly, and on reasonable terms, as that public companies with their own funds so largely at , stake would do so, there can be no doubt that by a sys tem of combination much might be saved. But whatever the opinion of liberal Whigs may be, and however well they may be satisfied that while their party has the Government, nothing will be so satisfactorily done as that which is done by the Government, we confess to a prejudice against the interference of our political rulers in affairs of popular convenience, which might as well be exempted from the acerbity of political associations. Whig government may be a blessing—as indeed many things doubtless are, which to ordinary human vision appear to be exactly the contrary—but still one may have too much of it. Granting the possibility that the commissionerships, secretaryships, surveyorships, inspectorships, and so forth, which the Whigs have contrived to create in such won. drous abundance, are all for the good of the country, and by no means for the sake of gaining adherents to a Govern ment which exists upon the no-patronage principle, still it may be doubted whether the country would be anything the better if the Government were saddled with the fresh re sponsibility of appointing hundreds of engineers and sub engineers —thousands of railway inspectors—tens of thou sands of artificers in wood and iron, and hundreds of thou sands of excavators. It may also be worthy of a passing thought, whether the independence of certain town consti tuencies would be much improved by the consciousness • that it was io the power of Government to cause the rail , way line to pass by their town, or to diverge to another, of which the Parliamentary Representatives possessed more , easy access to the Minister. The more that any one will consider this subject the more abundant will the stock of - reasons become, why in a country that is somewhat jealous of too much Government, the railroads should net be added • to the amount of trouble which the present rulers of the country are good enough to be willing to undertake on the popular behalf. If, however, there should be any one who l entertains a doubt of their perfect disinterestedness in this regard, we beg it may be remarked that it is only where F they could have an opportunity of serving the people by appointing them to good berths of one kind or another, . that they volunteer their interference. It will be observed that with respect to cur foreign relations, and to those • Reforms of our internal institutions which do not demand any new appointments to carry them into effect, the . Government does quite as little as the most jealous of Ministerial interference could possibly desire.—Morn in g Post. line-of-battle ships, more than half as many heavy frigates, with 30 steamers of war, manned with crews in the highest state of discipline, and equally efficient for military as for naval purposes, are within two, three, or four weeks' sail of the British Islands, and that the whole of our defensive force along our own coast consists of seven sail of the line and some smaller vessels, without even their full comple ment of men on the peace establishment. The Russian fleet in the Baltic, according to the official report of Captain ' Craufurd, an eye-witness of its manoeuvres, consisted two years ago of 27 line-of-battle ships, 19 heavy frigates, three corvettes, and a numberof smaller vessels,and three more line of-battle ships were on the stocks. This was independent of the Black Sea fleet of 18 sail of the line. According to the statement of the Secretary of the Admiralty in 1836, the French marine in active service this summer must amount to 28 ships of the line, to which may be added 36 frigates and 36 armed steamers. The squadron of Mehe met Ali, which lately sailed for the coast of Syria, was com posed of nine line-of-battle ships, which are as completely at the disposal of the Emperor of Russia, as are the navies of Holland, Denmark,and Sardinia, together with the ma ritime population of Greece which, during six years, with stood, single-handed, the squadrons of the Sultan, Mehemet Ali, Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers. We are informed, how ever, by Lord Minto, " that our arrangements are such that we could send at a very short notice a large feet to sea. Now, that was the state in which the navy was, and he could say, that there was no call so sudden but that we could, with the greatest ease and expedition, equip a very large and powerful fleet." Does his Lordship mean to say, that a nticipating the possibility of aggression against England, he would re ceive notice of a meditated attack in time to prevent the simultaneous capture or destruction of every arsenal, every port, and every vessel in the United Kingdom ? Or that, under any circumstances, he could equip a fleet equal to the Baltic fleet within a month? But, grantieg the prac ticability of such a measure, how far on its way to the conquest of the East and West Indies, and to the acqui sition of Constantinople, would be the Russian armada with its 30,000 men and its four months' provisions, before any fleet, however large and powerful, could be despatched in quest of it The advantage of a single day's start down the Channel places our whole colonial empire at the mercy of a power, of whose aggressive designs no further proof needbe required than its formation, in profound peace, within awe landlocked seas, of a navy more than six times the strength of that which its maritime ally maintains for the defence of its own shores. But the Noble Lord, whilst making this assertion, adds, " that be had not received any informa tion which led him to believe that any additional naval force was required for the protection of our commerce in any part of the world, not even in any of these places to which the Noble Duke had referred." " The blockade of' Mexico had been regularly announced and effectually main teined by the blockading power," and " he must remark, that it was not necessary to the legality cf the blockade that any previous notice should have been given to this country." Hero, therefore, we have from the lips of a Ca binet Minister the avowal that a blockade is not the ex ercise of a bellegerent right, and that no previous notice, hewever short, is necessary to render is a legal act. Wiost, then, is to prevent the declaration of the blockade of the British islands or of any of our distant colonies in a time of profeunl peace, and the interruption of the commerce of every n mtral power bound to their shores? Has not such a principle obtained during seven years the prescriptive sanction of Lord Palmerston in the Black Sea? Has he not ertln-ceil it in the book axle of the ports of Hui lawi ansi Guatemala ; and does Le not contioue to enforce it against Mitish commerce along the coasts of Spain? Lord Minto's statement admits, what oe have all along maintained, the collusion of our Government in the pohey and principles of Russia, and we cannot conceal our surprisco that, with the txc'pticn of Lord Lyndhurst's al lusion to the lc - Fs of our position in the East by our sub miss:on to the the treaty of Unkiar 'Skelessi, not one of the Akrobers who spoke on the occasion, though all were mott' in admitting our national degradation, attributed it to the troe cause—the connivance of our Foreign Mi t:ister from the first hour of his appointment in the policy, principle;, and designs of the Cabinet of Sr. Petersburgh. Of oar physical inability to contend with any third-rate na‘ at power unless through an intimate alliance with Sul tan Mahmoud, and the presence of our pennants in the Black Sea, paralying the aggressive action of Russia throughout the world, ample evidence will be found in the letter of a naval officer inserted in another portion of cur columrs : nor can we conceive a question more sitaliy im portant to the interests of mankind than an inquiry into the application during the last twenty-two years of repose of the sum of 137,719,606/. exclusively devoted to a branch of our national defence, on the efficiency of which alone repose the hopes of p-aee, the balance of power. the security of commerce, or the independence of any single state.—Times. Thanks to the Tories, and especially to the House of' Lords, the people of Great Britain are not soon likely to experience a dearth of materials for agitation. While he reditary legislation exist, the agitators may always rely upon basing an abundant supply of grievances with which to ex cite the public mind. There is an eastern story wherein the idnister of a despotic and warlike Prince, whose delight was in devastating his neighbour's territories, is represented as pretending to his master to understand the language of birds, and being asked to give a specimen of his skill, by in terpreting a conversation at the moment taking place be tween two rooks, after affecting to listen for sonic time, stated that they were congratulating each other on the glorious prospect which the sovereign opened to them, as during his reign rooks would never want r uined villages in which to fix their residence. Of a similar character is the service which the Tories confer on professional agitators, to whom they afford an unfailing supply of ma terials for the exercise of their occupation. So profuse are they in the distribution of wrongs, that men, whose first desire would otherwise be to keep aloof from poli tical strife and pursue a course of industrial exertion, are coerced by oppression and injustice to coaibine in the general struggle for a redress of grievances. Agitation is no longer confined to a few discontented spirits sup ported by the reckless and improvident, in the hope of reaping advantage amidst the convulsions of society, but maintained by the most wealthy and industrious classes, its action is impelled by the power of a whole nation, and its sphere of operation is from the centre to the circumfer eace of the British isles. Were the prospects of parties to be estimated by the proceedings within the walls of Par liament, the result of the present political struggle might indeed appear doubtful ; but when we look without—when we see the people in all parts of the kingdom—every county and town in England, Ireland, and Scotland—actuated by the same spirit, meeting, organising, and combining for the accomplishment of a common object, all doubt as to the result must be set at rest. It would be a mistake to suppose that the ultimate object of the people in all parts of the united kingdom is not the same, though the difference in the amount and degree of their respective wrongs may exhibit some discre pancy in their several proceedings. Ireland, for in stance, is claiming full and perfect equality of laws and rights with England, while England is s eeking a new " charter" for the people ; but should the question be brought to issue, it would soon appear that the difference of purpose exists only in name, and not in reality, and that both countries are struggling to effect the same consumma mation—Justice for the people. A public meeting, we perceive, is to be held in the Palace-yard, Westminster, on the 17th of next month, to take into consideration the pro priety of petitioning Parliament to pass into law the " Peo ple's Charter," as drawn up by the Working Men's Asso eiation, and of adopting the " National Petition," as agreed to at Birmingham, Glasgow, and other towns. ' We understand that the High Bailiff of Westminster has consented to take the chair, and that a number of influential Reformers from different parts of the country are expected to attend. There is no doubt the meeting will be one of the most important that has for a long time been held in the metropolis, and having assemblediproposed e r b ea y h i at Birmingham, e t a e pa rhundredsa paramount o unin i f Glasgow,u e tho usands nce of aonndthe eh e persons rp r places, celately proceeding n g ts for its object th e acc omplishment of the sam e en d s as wer e of the next Session. The " national petition" already has received an amount of signatures that would a ppear incredible. I i k l liinognds kingdom, that men already are called go organized throughout the day to have simultaneous meetings , as has been proposed. to assist in promoting the common object, an array would be exhibited, which, however peaceable in conduct, would be fearful and appalling in its very magnitude. This is the on which the Tories may thankand prospect congratulate themselves. With such a vista before them, their darling hope of office must be rather distant of realization. Were not the people so intelligent and orderly as they have on so many occasions recently exhibited themselves, such im mense assembl iges could not be contemplated without the most fearful apprehension. As it is, fortunately, th e mul titude has felt its moral power to be its most efficient agent ; and in this feeling is the best guarantee of the pub lic safety. But though there be no danger of commotion, nor of society resolving itself into its original elements, a great change is at hand. Parliament having disappointed the public expectation, its power is passing away, and the people are virtually re-assuming what otherwise they would be content to delegate—the sovereign authority. In feet, the body politic c f Great Britain is at the present moment in the transition of is peaceful revolution.—morn. Adver. There is groat reaeon to fear that on Saturday next the two ferrale victims cf that Christian and human e proviien of the Whig Poor-law, which has the effect of a Noun'} offered upon iefo t:eide, arc destined to perish by the hands of the eeecetionc . r, to 1 x‘ ,l °P l 4 the I ) l Q•sed effects of ties: -€ the g reat Whig "boon" seMell wee mor e espe portion o. • the " female population. 'to eialiy conferred u e on • !@ .4ff•in" STRANGE MARRIAGE AT HULL.—On Monday wee married, at St. Mary's Church, Mr. William Clarkson, eerelwaine,r, to Miss —. An unusuel sensation was created by the above event, the bridegroom being a deformed person, about thirty years cf age, and three feet six inches in height, whilst the btidc was a blooming girl, much taller, and sup posed tube yet in her teens. The couple had no sooner en tered the church than crowds of the lower orders, chiefly women f,om the adjacent lanes lied alleys, flocked into the sacred edifice, and conducted themselves in a manner so disorderly, that it was deemed prudent to lock the doors to prevent the intrusion of any more. Numbers, however, continued to arrive, and quickly filled those parts of Lowgate, Chapel-lane, and Low Church-alley, immediately contiguous to the church. The ceremony being performed, the couple prepared to depart, but a death-like pal,:ee3s came over the visage of the bridegroom, when, on turning rimed, he beheld the middle aisle crowded with spectators. Prefrring a quiet tnereat to the doubtful ree, ption of so great acid rude a mul ttude, he advanced with his partner to one cif the sic aisles, but was equally dismayed on finding that that also was blocked up with human beings. A peesage was at length suede for the egress of the connubial pair, and they proceeded through the aisle amidet the loud cheers and exclamations of the congregation. The scene, which was somewhat serio comical, raised for a time a smile on the countenance of the minister, but this was shortly changed to a graver aspect. The conduct of the parties who had obtained admission into the church was truly disgraceful. On approaching the door a sailor, who had perched himself upon a slight eleva tion, to have a better view of the affair, leaped down from his situation, and throwing both his ems round the neck of the bride, saluted her with a kis., end let her go. A salutation still more unwelcome awaited the happy bride ;iemen for it those within the church had acted rudely, those outside appeared determined not to be outdone by their corn recites in misbehaviour. Acts of violence were immediately inflicted or attempted upon the person of the little man, who gladly enough made the best of his way from the assailants, while some of his friends voluntarily returned the compliment to those who were fisty inclined. The poor shoemaker could not travel very fast, but in his fashion lie ran, followed by a great part of the crowd, up Lowgate, Market-place, North Church-side, and took refuge in the Church of Holy Trinity, where another marriage was then celebrating. The Church, however eflorded little sanctuary for him. He was closely attended by the rude throng, which increasing even there upon him, he soon retreated again, and was chased through several other streets, until he either found a quiet hiding place or his pursuers grew tired of their frolic. "We believe the lady who so recently plighted to him her troth deserted him not in all these adventures.—Hull Observer. A BRILLIANT BIT OF BLARNEY.—Women of Kilshindy ! the feelings of my heart irresistibly impel me to address myself to you. lam come to render homage to your numberless perfections. I lay my devotions at your feet ; I implore your sympathy, your aid. I solemnly protest that I would far prefer the loss of my election, if supported by your influence, to success the most brilliant and decisive if acquired through the energies exclusively of men..--( Hurrah.) But this, my lovely country-women, is a totally impracticable case, for your magic aid will invest me in a panoply of proof, and wreathe my brows with victory's luxuriant laurel.—(Great cheering.) My a d ora bl e coun t r y women I d o es not the genial are of patrioti sm an i ma t e y our b reas t s ? Oh yes ; it glows within the sacred temple of your swelling bosoms with a lustre more intense than our ruder sex can possibly appreciate. Wo men of Kilshindy ! you are all either married, or you hope to be married.—( Roars of laughter.) Would you not wish the hus bands of your choice, the beloved companions of your lives, to bear upon their fronts the proud stamp of Liberty ?—( A tor nado of applause.) Would you not wish to transmit to your posterity the glorious inheritance of freedom ? 0, I know you would. The elevating sentiment sparkles in your glance, and beams upon your smile. Exert, then, in the cause of Catholic Ireland, the magic fascinat'on of the female eye— ( Shouts of laughter)—the irresistible witchery of the female tongu e ; make the arch boy Cupid auxiliary to our patriotic efforts--.(A storm of laughter)—exert the thousand charms which Nature has so kindly lavished on you, and if these don't produce the desired effect, congeal your melting maiden tenderness to ice ; darts frowns of horror and reproof upon the man who would perpetuate the stamp of servitude which ty ranny has branded on the manly brow of Irishmen. Rouse the electors of Kilshindy !—excite theta to national exertion, by fair means or rough If possessed of the aid of your tillery, my beloved countrywomen, I confidently promise that my struggle will be brief, glorious, and triumphant.—The Wife-hunter. SHOCKING BIGOTRY.—The following morceaux served up in the columns of the Carlow Sentinel, shows the sort of garbage on which Orangemen feed and fatten :—" A few weeks since we stated that a child belonging to a man named Thomas Donelly, in the employment of Mr. Sly, had been exhumed by some barbarians and removed to another place, because the parent, who is a Roman Catholic, continued in the employment of Mr. Sly. The case was fully inquired into at the Tullow Petty Sessions on Saturday week, when the bench ordered informations to be sworn against P. Donelly, W. Doyle, and John Byrne for the offence. It appears that Donelly se ore he had paid a certain Priest to bless the clay If before he laid the body of the child beside those of his ancestors ; but, notwithstanding this, the blind fanatics charged with the offence, being instigated by some demon to commit tke deed, forthwith dug up the body, lest it might corrupt the " ashes" of the " faith ful." The Parish:Priest of Clonegal denies all participation in the deed, but admitting his accuracy to the fullest extent, he does not deny that some neighbouring Priest did not employ these wretched bigots to exhume the body. The committal of such offences in the 19th century is disgraceful to a country pre tending to civilization, and forcibly reminds us of the awful demoralization of the lower classes, when the monks possessed unlimited dominion in this country. Such anti.christian acts are in strict conformity with the doctrines inculcated by Dr. M' Hale, who, in consecrating the churchyard of Addergoole, declared, " That as a spoonful of poison would spoil a churn of milk, so would a small dust of Protestant clay poison the entire graveyard." ROBBERlES.—Yesterday information of the follow ing robberies was communicated to the police:—On Sunday night last, or early the next morning, the premises of Mr. Dodd, Norwood-green, Southall, were entered and plundered of a quantity of valuable plate, consisting of dessert forks, soup ladles, spoons of different descriptions, and other articles; a ring, supposed to be a diamond one, was also carried off, to gether with a purse containing some cash. On the same night Hadley 's Hotel, Bridge-street, was robbed of twelve silver table forks, seven ditto table spoons, and three ditto dessert spoons, all marked " Radley's Hotel," and " G. K.," in a circle. On Friday night two young women, named Priscilla Bitten and Emma Bitten, absconded from the house of Mrs. Hall, Little St. Mary's-lane, Cambridge, stealieg and taking away with them 16 sovereigns and a large quantity of wearing a pparel ; it is supposed that the females drug ge d some b eer, o f which Mrs. Hall partook previously to her going to bed, a nd that they then took from behind her pillow the key of the drawer in which the cash was deposited. The eldest of the fug i t i ves (one of whom, Priscilla, was Mrs. Hall's servant) is no more than 16 years of age. They have been trsced to London, and it is supposed they have proceeded to Dover with t he vices of embarking for the Continent. ExTRAoRDINARY CIR CUMSTANCE..—..A woman carryin,t• a dea , l child was on T ues d a y n i ght brought to the Gl, s - f ow police office for examination. She had been ob served in Blythswood.square in a state of intoxication by t oo l a di es , who saw the child d ro p f rom h er arms upon the sn . ce t. On going roarer, the ladies discoTored that the in t.:int, which was abut two monilis old, was dead. Vacther h.:d been alive previc;lis to the fill, could not be ascer tained, hot, as the mother was oh erred applying its lips to 111.2 , d east, after she had li%ed it, the likelihood is, that it xy, - is Jive, or at least, that she was not r.ware of life being extinct. Th, s urgeon gave i t as his opinion, that death was the effect o f disease.,--Tilinburgh c9urani, • ‘,' gulation of women on the scaffold, under any circumstances, is a practice so barbarous and brutal, that nothing could make a civilised people tolerate it for a moment, but that force of custom which too often takes away the horror of cruel and demoralising spectacles by rendering them fami liar..S; The people of England have had their reflection awakened upon this subject. They no longer view with indifference a practice as abhorrent from manhood as it is disgraceful to civilisation. They see in the butchery of women by the sword of the law nothing but unmitigated barbarism. They cannot respect the laws which sanction such a practice, or feel any reverence for the counsellers of the Crown who wish to perpetuate them. But of all the ex hibitions of this sort which can shock the better feelings of mankind, the sacrifices of women who are the victims of male libertinism, encouraged by the bastardy clauses of the Maithusian law, are the most revolting. Those infamous clauses, which set justice and morality at defiance, arc likely to fulfil the predictions to which they formerly gave rise, by being copiously sprinkled with human blood. The seducer and betrayer of weak and confiding woman is co vered by the Whig law with an ignominious security, while the unhappy being that has fallen from virtue, comfort, and honour, under the basest arts of the perfidious libertine, and who, in the frenzy of desperation, stifles the cries of nature in a mother's heart, is dragged to the felon's cell and the murderer's scaffold, and, cast out from the lap of society, perishes unpitied—no, not unpitied : the sympathies of the people surround the dying victim—their execrations fall upon the law and the legislators. They breathe curses deep and loud upon the cause of the two-fold homicide. They see in a law which protects the seducer from a share in the penal consequences of his own licentiousness the in strument of destruction of the mother and the child. They sce the blood of both rise up to Heaven, in testimony against this atrocious law. When we alluded before to the cases of the two women lyin , 4 under sentence of death at Chester, we steed that a petition for mercy had been forwarded to the Queen, which was signed by the rector of the parish in which one of the women resided, six other clergymen and ministers, two county magistrates, and a large number of respectable tradespeople. We gave an extract or two from that petition, which proved that the crime for which Lord John Russell seems to think it right that the blood of these women : , hould be taken was attributed, not merely in the popular mind, but by the voice of intelligent and reflecting persons, to the operation of the New Poor-law. We have since seen some observations in the Chester Couran whereby it would appear that the Secretary for the Home Department has returned, if any, an unfavourable an swer to the prayer of that petition. The worthy fenc •ionary is now taking his holiday pastime i❑ the Isle of Wight. Perhaps, while resting from the extraordinary fatigues of a session which meet ludicrously realised the fable of " the mountain and the mouse," he does not like his lordly repoe to be broken in upon by the import tunities of the people, praying that Government may take some other means to prove that it is not wholly inactive in vacation time than by working the machinery of the gil lows ! However this may be, we observe that at Chester the shooting and the hanging season this year ere expected to commence together—Dinars Jones and Ann Byrom are ordered for execution on the first of September—the day on which our sporting Ministers prepare to open their partridge-shooting campaign. Thus they allow hanging to the mob and shooting to themselves. To the brutal part of the pepulation an execution is pastime—to the goo lit is a subject of intense disgust. How comprehensive is the aare of our Liberal Government for " the national sports" ~," the cceotry, seeing it is ordered that the slaushter of aannen and wild fowl are to begin together, thus test:ng the efficacy of the Nti'hig Poor-law and Game-law by simultaneous experiment ! " With feelings of heartfelt sorrow," sa!s the Chester Courant, " we understainl that the exert ions which had been made to stay the eeecution of fl nah Jones and Ann Byrom, who were sent:: :eel to death for child murder at our last Assizes, and whose execution ..yes fixed for Saturny, the first of September, Las been hitherto fruitless." The same Joureal bears ae strongest testimony possible to the previous character or the youngest of these women, Dillith Jones, WllOlll it desceilees as awaiting her approaahing fate with that uious resignation known only to those who have made their ocarte with their Creator through the atoning bh;od of the Redeemer. But we will g 7 ve its account of her previous character in its own words :—"Dinah Jones i, but 21 years of age, had only 61. a year wages, out of which she Lad to pay 2s, a week towards the mainta n nice of her infant, who, he it recollected, was separated from her, which prevented the operation of some motives that could not have failed to have strenghtened her feelings to wards it. We have seen a memorial cf the girl's character during the whole time she was in service, signed by all her employers, than which nothing can be more sati4actory. The all declare her to be an excellent servant, distinguished for kindness and humanity, and remarkably correct. It is distressing on reading this important document to observe the unfortunate occurrence of circumstances which prevented the individuals who have signed it from attending at the trial to afford the unhappy woman thebenelitof that decidedand sotie- I factory evidence to character which is attested in this me morial. She is very gentle in her manners, exceedingly calm and mild in disposition, and, in appearance, the very last person that could be supposed capable of performing the cruel deed of which she has been found guilty." If Lord John Russell persists in advising the Queen against extending mercy to this poor young woman and her fellow convict—if he refuses to avert from Chester the exhibition of that disgusting tragedy, or mob pastime, or whatever it is to be called, with which that town is threatened on the Ist of September—we do not think the reflection will here after sweeten that hour when the hand that uncrowus Monarchs disrobes the Statesman, and calls the Judge to meet the victim of his inexorable sentence before an un erring tribunal.—Morning Herald. There is a story told of a certain Frenchman, a man of rank and some pretension to science, who had written a work under the title of " Travels in Sicily." Before pub lication he thought fit to submit the MS. to a person of less imagination, but more sober judgment than himself, who, after an attentive perusal, favoured his confiding friend with the following counsel :—" I advise you, good Sir, by no means to commit yourself by publishing what you have written as a book of travels, since something of history, science, or accurate observation, might be expected from a man of your rank and station ; but your work need not, therefore, be lost ; it is light and amusing enough, and you have but to add a few pretty prints, and change the title to a' Sicilian Romance,' and it will do very well as a book for the ladies." We introduce this little story at present, not as apropos des buttes, but as apropos of the report of the Irish Railway Commissioners, about which—owing to the very laudable industry of the Mini sterial papers—the London public have heard so much within the last week. We think it is to be regretted that these most amiable and respectable, as well as highly scientific Commissioners, did not follow the plan of Mon sieur le Compte who wrote about Sicily, and receive good advice pretty much to the same effect. If their work were entitled " A Rhapsody on Railroads," and prettlily illus trated not only by diagrams and sectional drawings, but by coloured sketches, actual and anticipative, of the country through which the principal lines are intended to pass, it might probably have a very great run in Whig drawing rooms. The Marchioness of Lansdowne, and the Lady Holland would no doubt have it on their tables, and cause it to be made one of the topics of conversation for at least two evenings. Lady Osborne would perhaps find out that she could kive some valuable evidence about it to a Committee of the House of Lords ; and Lady Morgan— unless she should happen to regard it as an unfair public interference with her line of business—would perhaps devote a forenoon to hammering out an evening impromptu in its favour. But it is now, alas ! something of the latest to indulge in these speculations. The Railway Commis sioners, instead of taking good advice, and publishing their Report as a rhapsody, have acted without advice, and the rhapsody has been actually published as a Report. Thus f romantic speculation and this curiou s j um bl e of mer i tor i ous philanthropy and me chanical mathe maticalphilosophy det a il, i s lik ely to do some harm an d no good. As —o a scientific poem—into which form it might easily have been thrown—it would have been respectable ;as an offi cial document it is ridiculous. What Ireland requires, upon a great scale, is not facilities for her commerce, but commerce for her facilities. It may he said that facilities would bring the commerce. That was said long ago, when the two great canals were projected, which now proceed from the sea at Dublin to the very heart of the concernswere panticipations to re g a t h i- ding ei r o - r t i h g e i n m a l . B country. These were gre a t works, and magnificent and only a reduced interest to thos e w h o lent moneysha u re t l m o l t n d b e t e r h s s e e , security of the works. The noble docks of the ‘-' Grand Canal," which are close to the sea, grow crops of duck weed upon the surface of the water—the warehouses upon the bunks are, in the most un-Irish manner, sinking T gently end peaceably into decay. he fact - is, that, ex cept areen[s the Presbyterians in the north, and a few hundred Quakers aeatacred here and there in the south, there is nothing like those habits of accumulation which make it possible to take advatitaiie of great fa cilities for commercial enterprise. The great canals were and are just such a benefit to Ireland as a brewer's dray and team of horses would be to a milkman who had to leave three half pints at the door of each of his eusto ' ° And this also would be the ease with railroads, eau >t i ti ßer o '. two or three lives where there is something like cceo l re P ••• ° 1 activity. The ingenious, and o f course, impartial, .ers.ia - esnal4 of the Ministerial party lay very great stress, rsP, m in!, umicr !be the vast importance of railways to the Jo—. epan ti:e vast superiority not only upesi regeneration of Irelanu ... l .' ...„_. _ . t.) . a comb:lied and g..neral system o, W eee sion of Guverairient over separate and isol a te t: !!71; directin of joint-stock companies. Now we underxlit iuestioo for a country havinf a t t i l l i 4 e t It is 3 rice co SHERIFF'S COURT.-WEDNESDAY THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND THE TRUSTEES OF THE PAD- DINGTON ESTATE V. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILROAD COM- PAN Y. The nature of this case was to assess the value of two leases, held under an unreserved rent of 831. ss. per annum, with a nominal fine of 2001. at the end of every b 0 years ; and also to award the contingent damages that might result from any buildings hereafter erected by the Great Western Railway Company to the leaseholds in question, in consequence of the event of the Company becoming freeholders of certain por tions of land, and thereby being freed from all restricted cove nants embraced in the said leases. Mr. PLATT appeared for the claimants ; and Mr. Sergeant WILDE on the part of the Railway Company. After hearing evidence, the Jury retired for a few minutes, and, calculating the extent of the land at 4 acres 35 perches altogether, assessed its value to be 2,6571. 16s. 3d., being at the rate of 311 years' purchase. For contingent injury, Is. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Sergeant Adams.) The Court sat this day for the purpose of hearing appeals. DOWLING V. TILE JUSTICES OF WESTMINSTER.-This was an appeal against a decision of the Justices of Westminster, refusing to grant him a license for the Kent and Sussex Ta vern, in Jerinyn-street, St. James's. After hearing Mr. BODKIN, on behalf of the appellant, The COURT, without hearing Mr. CLARKSON for the respon dents, decided that it was a case in which it bad not the powcr to interfere. Several appeals against convictions by Magistrates were al lowed, the informers not having given the required notices. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HA TTON- GARDEN. James Haehet, John Gardiner, and Eliza Murnford were placed at the bar, charged by William Jackson, engineer, of Leather-lane, with the following daring outrage : The prosecutor being sworn, stated that on Monday after noon last he was passing through Saffron-hill, when the pri soner Hacket threw a large stone at his head, which struck him and nearly stunned him, on which he fell down, when the other prisoners rushed upon him, and kicked and jumped upon his body, and the female prisoner filled his eyes and mouth with mud, to prevent his making any alarm. At length policeman Hull, 220, G division, came to his assistance, and apprehended the prisoners. after a desperate resistance. The prisoners, he had no doubt ; attacked him with the intention of robbing him, as they were strangers to him, and he gave them no provocation for such an outrage. Hull stated that the prisoners belonged to a daring gang on Saffron-hill, who were in the habit of stationing themselves near Red Lion -court, and tripping up any respectable person who happened to pass that way, and ill-using them in the stme manner as the prosecutor. Mr. WITHAM said that it was necessary to make an ex ample of such daring characters, and he convicted Hacket and Gardiner in the extreme penalty of 51 each, or two months' imprisonment ; and Mumford in the penalty of 31., or six weeks' imprisonment ; and they were eventually taken to prison. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. AN OBSTACLE TO MAJESTY.—Mr. Moore, the proprietor of the Windsor coach, was summoned by Ball, the keeper of a private bar in Belgrave-square, for having committed a tress pass by driving his coach through the gate. Mr. Moore said he had been directed to go that road by one of her Majesty's pages, whose luggage he was conveying to Windsor. He was sorry for having inadvertently committed an offence, and he bad done all in his power to repair his error ; but at the time, having one of her Majesty's pages authority, and conceiving he was on the Queen's business, he was under the impression that he bad a right to go through the gate. 13:111, with en air of great importance, declared that of such potency did he conceive the regulations to be, that were her Majesty to present herself at his bar, even though she were in her state carriage on state affairs, he should feel it to be his duty not to allow her to pass. Mr. DYER remarked that Mr. Moore had inadvertently been led into a mistake, and therefore he should only inflict a no minal fine, with costs. Catherine Leary, a Munster bog-beauty, with a black eye, and Bridget Carabine, a Connaught lady, sworn enemies as a matter of course, presented themselves before Mr. Dyer and Mr. Hall to have an assault warrant settled. I wint last Sunday to fetch a walk (began Mrs. Leary) wid me two childer—one three months and nine days cold, in me arms—and t'other two year and two wakes ould next Winsday, houlding me tail. Mistress Carabine was at her own door, and as I wiet by she pulled a face at me, and sung out " To the divil wid all Munster," which I'd be ashamed to call a dog, ycr honner. Never mind my country, says I, so long as there's the sante power above for Connaught and Munster. It's a lie, says she, you Irish rap, says she, betting me a crack that knocked me fac© into a gore of blood. Then she bites me on the arm—l can show me mark ; and kicks me on me knee— I can show the bruize ; and thumps me on me lines—l can show the place. Mr. DYER—And did you not do anything at this time ? Complainant—Not a hap'orth, your wurtchip, barring saving me own life, that I mightn't be kilt again, as I was last Winsday. Mr. DYKR—You bear the charge. Mrs. Carabine? Defendant—Fait an' I do ; but there's not a word of trute wid her. She came to ma on Sunday wid a few halfpence in her hand, and, says she, you're a good sowl, make this up the price of a quartern of gin, and the blessing go wid ye. Is it gin you mane, says I, shame to the likes ov ye to be axing me for the money I want to get bread for me six childer. There's a new shop opened, says she, at the corner of the street, and if don't give a hansel for a quartern, I shant't have luck next wake. I wouldn't consint, your wurtchip, bekase I never drinks gin, all the world's me w itness, and then down she tumbled, as she was quite drunk, and gave herself that black eye by hitting the paving-stones a whack wid her head. The complainant's sister, however, having corroborated the charge of assault, the bench dropped a hint, which induced the parties to come to a settlement together. The warrant having been discharged, Mrs. Carabine joined her friends outsid e the office, and in a tone of triumph called out " I've won the day. Come over the way wid ye, and I'll trate ye all to a pint of gin." NARY LEB ONE. A GHOST.-Yesterday, William Fisk, a young man about eighteen yews of age, who looked more like a " spirit of health" than " goblin damned," was brought up in custody and placed at the bar, charged with having played the part of a ghost. It appeared from the evidence, that about a fortnight ago, as an old woman, named Sanson, was passing along Totten ham-court-road, she happened to look into the Tabernacle burial-ground, and there espied what she conceived to be the colossal figure of a man enveloped in a snow white sheet, with blue flame issuing from his nostrils, and a long tail swinging from the binder part of his person ; the rumour was rapidly circulated, and in an incredibly short space of time it was stated as a fact throughout the neighbourhood that the anti quated dame alluded to must have been deceived, and that the object she beheld was nut sensible to feeling as to sight; in . short, the rumour was that it was a ghost, and nothing but a ghost ; crowds of persons consequently assembled after dusk, in the hope of obtaining a glimpse of the spectral visitor, but without having their curiosity gratified, but as the mob con. tinned to congregate, to the annoyance of foot passengers, extra policemen were placed on duty. On the previous night (Tuesday), just as the "iron tongue of midnight bad toll'd twelve," and more than 200 people had congregated around the ground, the prisoner made a sudden exit over the iron rail ing into the street, and as it was imagined that he was the ghost, be was given in charge and locked In reply to the charge the prisoner said that be heard some ladies say they had seen the ghost pop up and down between the tombstones, and in order to satisfy himself of the fact he got over into the ground—he then found it was all " gam mon," and consequently made his exit. He was held to bail for his good behaviour for the next six months. UNION-HALL. Yesterday morning, soon after Mr. Jeremy had taken his seat, it was intimated to him that John Rickaby, of Bridge house-place, Newington, against whom, it will be recollected, a warrant was granted on the complaint of a highly respect able gentleman, would attend at the office in the course of the day to answer a ny charge that might be preferred against him. Mr. JEREMY, to whom the above communication was made, said that the gentleman had been at the office in the afternoon of the preceding day, and stated that he had got back his two bills of 2,0001. each from the parties who had obtained pos. session of them in the manner he had described in his state.. ment against them oa Monday last. The gentleman had represented that the restoration of his bills cost him 1501., and that as he has succeeded in getting them out of the h an d s of the parties he did not intend to take any further steps in the business. The Magistrate said that, under these circum stances, the warrant granted against Rickaby, one of the per. sons charged to have been implicated in the alleged fraudu lent transaction, would be discharged. Sergeant Twohig, M division, said that Rickaby would be in attendance at the office at one o'clock, and as he (the ser geant) had a document in his possession which he took from the accused person when he was given into custody, and which had reference to the transaction between him and the gentleman referred to, he (the sergeant) therefore wished to know whether it was necessary that he should apprise the gen tleman of Rickaby's intention to be in attendance at the office that day. Mr. JEREMY, in reply, said that the sergeant had better communicate the fact of Rickaby's intention to he at the office to the gentleman, that the latter might Lave an opportunity of hearing and replying to any statement made by RickaLy en the subject of the allegations Crought against him. The sergeant repaired to Long's Hotel, 13roact-street, and returned soon afterwards and said that he bad seea the gentle man, who had expressed his determination not to appear at the office again unless it was at the Magistrate's desire. Mr. JEREMY said that the couvlainant was not compelled to appear if he did not wish. At this stage of the business Rickby entered the office with his head bound round with a handkerchief, and his left arr.:,, which was broken betvvcca the wrist and the eIIYZ!W, in a splint. Fium his whole appearance be s - ..er„.; - , v a l o h ave h a d severe charisement inflicted upon 1,,;,,, ckaby, Jeremy, . said, that ha v i n! , be, n i,forifirct A warrant was ip3ued tlgaitlst him, he had vo inntavlly come forward now, being too ill since Sunday, to tie vi-dence ii:.: had reeei , ,W, to Ile enabled to tend until that clay. Mr. JEREMY—There ig no person hum to prefcr any .0 1z; .,, against you, tiierefore I Shall discharie the warrant. Rickaby —The affair between the gentleman and mTself hag been misreprei-nted by him, ard . I . am now prcparea to give my version of what really did take place. I have beat scan dalously maligned, and most unwarrantably attacked and beaten. Mr. JEREMY, interrupting Rickaby, said, that be could not hear his statement, as the individual against whom be was about to make it was not present. Rickaby—But you heard the charge against me without my being present, and I hope you will allow me to make my statement now, although he is not here. A charge of felony has :teen made against me, and I wish to make my defence to the accusation. Mr. JEREMY said that a charge of felony had not been pre ferred, but that of misdemeanour ; and, as the gentleman had thought proper to compromise the affair, and not to appear, the charge against the accuses was therefore dismissed. Sergeant Twohig produced a document, of which the fol lowing is a copy " August 25, 1838. " I hereby authorise Mr. Rickaby to receive on my order 2001. for my acceptances, on. Messrs. Hopkinson and Co., on delivering up said acceptances to me." ( Signed by the gentleman.) The sergeant said that the morning the gentleman bad given the accused in custody, the above docurm n;: had been taken from the latter, who now claimed it, and he (the sergeant) wanted to know to which of the two individuals he should de liver up possession. Rickaby—_l claim it now as my property. It was taken from me. There is no charge made against me, and I have a right to have it restored to me. Mr. JEREMY directed the document to be given up to the person who now claimed it, after a copy of it had been taken by the sergeant, in case of its being required fur any f u ture proceeding. This was accordingly done, and Rickaby having made an' other ineffectual attempt to enter into his statement of the whole of the circumstances relating to the bill transaction, re iterated that the conduct pursued towards him had been infa mous in the extreme, and added that he should take especial care that the matter should not rest where it was, but that he should have ample satisfaction, and seek that justice which he was entitled to for the wrong that he had suffered. In ad dition to the broken arm and broken head he had received from his assailant, he had also been immured in a station house twenty-four hours. Rickaby then left the office. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY—ALLEGED HOCUSSING. WiIIiam - Wheeler, a cabman, out of employ, was placed at the bar , charged with having stolen 851. 10s., in Bank-notes and sovereigns, the property of Mr. William Nicholas Cox, 22, Paddington-street. It appeared from the evidence that on the previous day prosecutor sold out 1001. Three per Cent. Consols, and on walking along Bishop-zgate.-street, met with the prisoner, whoa , he asked if he had any objection to a spree. He replied, no, and, after drinking freely at several public-houses, they went by a steam-boat to Greenwich. On returning from there, it was agreed upon that they should g o to G:avescnd, and ac cordingly a cab was hired, in which they set off, but reached no farther than Dartford. On returning from thence he was set down in Baker-street with the prisoner, and on arriving at home he ascertained that he had been plundered of the whole of his money, with the exception of a five-pound note, which was left in his fob. He felt fully convinced that the drink of which he had partaken at several public-houses was drugged, as he felt so very ill on reaching home that he was obliged to send for a surgeon. The prisoner, who said he was innocent, was remanded till Tuesday next. " OF A TRADE," &C.-Mr. Wilily, surgeon, of Ber' ners-street, Oxford-street, was brought up on a warrant, charged with assaulting John Leamington, son of another surgeon in the same street. The assault complained of was a severe caning on the part of the defendant, without any provocation; and, in rePIY thereto, it was stated that the ill feeling between the parties had ariF,en in consequence of some assertions which th e father had m a d e a t the ir.qucst with reg ar d t o th e death o ' , Mr. Pow. Each party was held to bail to keep the peace towards each other for the remainder of the year. Q UEEN- S Q LTARE. Henry Rayner, a police constable, 129 B, was yesterdAY placed at the bar, charged with stealing an umbrella from Captain David Armstrong u hilc that gentleman was under the influence of liquor. A respectable married vs omen, named Nurse, stated that about half-past twelve on Saturday night she went to a haul called the Shakspeare, at the upper en d o f t h e V a usbal Bridge-road, and corner of Lower Eaton-street, to fetch som. e porter, and desire her husband to come home. 'The gate 13 front of the public-house was shut, and she there saw two gen- tlemen and a police constable standing together drinking brandy and water. The prisoner was the policeman now 3 _ ll custody. While the gentlemen were engag e d t a lki n g, she saw one of them hang his umbrella on the outside of the gate wile" they were standing, and, observing the gentlemen had been_ drinking, mentioned it to her husband, thi n ki n g the policeman might take it. She then got her beer, and went away home* her husband having promised to follow soon. William Nurse, the husband, stated that his wife drew hi; attention to the umbrella, which he particularly observe d hanging on the gate. The constable, Captain Arinatc°l4, and the other gentleman had altogether thr ee g l asse s of bran J and water, and tine whole three then went a faw puc ani awaY . They had proceeded a few yards, when the polic ema n turning away from them said, " I shall soon overtake you." P r isoner then walked up to the gate w h ere t h e umbrella had b een left, and deliberately took it o ff, an d wa lk ed away w i th it. \VIL ness thought he wan goi n g t o g i ve i t to the gent l ema n, bu t i instead of passing by E a t on -l ane, h e turne d up t h ere , o ut the road the others had tak en . I n a m i nute or two a f ter wards he came dow n w ith ou t th e um b re ll a, and went trAvar d s CaP t i Armstrong and his f r i en d. Th e f ormer said, " Policeman , have lost my umbrell a , I t hi n k I h ung i t on the gate. " prisoner then said he would go and look for it. After en a must sence of some mi n ut es h e returne d, an d sa i d somebody nitip have taken it, as i t was not t h ere, nor at the public -hens : i Witness stated what ho had seen on the Sunday morning,' six o'clock to a police sergeant, who reported it to the In - Spector. In defence th e consta bl e a d m i tte d hav i ng the brawl)? t a water, and standi ng a t t h e gate , as d eser ib ed. The geeLtn;d: men wanted hi m t o see t h em h ome, an d h e certainly said P?os overtake them s oon . H e went up Eaton-lr..ne with half a l ) ! a of beer, and left it there until be had hie supper. He de nte ever having seen the umbrella. Mr. BURRELL—Why did not you tell the constable you -' seen him take the umbrella w'nen the gentlemen were spec a n d about it ? Wit ness —Th e gentlemen were very drunk ; be if I had told the constable that I had seen him take it' • pg would have lock e d me up for being disorderly, or some thi 0 else. I did not consider I was safe in telling him. I afraid. The pot-boy at the public-house, the Shakspeare, was thearci put in the witness-box. He said that the two gentlemen b three glasses of brandy and water, and that he served th,t p tie liceman with half a pi nt o f b eer, w hi ch the latter s aid should not drink then, as he was having brandy and wa ter. ? Mr. BURRELL—Was the witness N urse present at that tho u Witness—Yes, he was. One of the inspectors of the B division iminediatelY c t , claimed, " If the umbrella had been hanging on the gate maid you not have see n it ?—The witness pa use d a momen t, and " Yes." Mrs. Nurse observed that it was dark, and had she not 9611 the gentleman put it there, she should not have observed,ti s ., Mr. BURREL L s a id th ere must b e some mistake, a nd misted the complaint. The inspectors gave the accused a good character for , b° : nesty, and said th a t h e h a d found a purse and other a t ticie a which he had delivered over to them. • c p Mr. 13GattELL said he w as no t aware o f that whirs.,n he deel.d. MR. URQUHART'S TRAVELS IN THE EAST' S Speaking of thi s pu bli cat i on, the Times says— ,, We pace to o , announce the appea rance o f a wr.,ik which, displaying the re suit of ten years' observatir,u in scenes of war and pea c wherein th e author took a prominent part as a scholar, a sol dier, a mediator, and a dipl oma ti s t, p resen t s v i ews an d obse. r l vations calculated n''.;c only to produce a material and benefie l o f effect upon . the moral, commercial, and political conditionasi the popu l . - ..cions of Europe and Asia, but to lead to the u' t , o p ap , :::eciation by each of the errors by which both have b` - misled, whilst offering the means through which the ex c d e : lencics of each may henceforth be estimated and exchange (74 , EIGHT-DAY CL s ' r e to strike the Flours and Half-hours, Five Guineas each. M e lo $ in elegant cases, about 7i inches high, suitable either to stE. , . • bracket or mantel-piece, and are Warranted, at T. COX don VORY'S, Working Goldsmith, &c. &c., 47, C orn kill, • 0 (Seven Doors from - Graceehur c h- s t ree t) . I t" N.B.—A painphlet con t a i n i ng d raw i ngs and a detailed lis priecs of Silver Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &te''%ti°s' had gratis, or w ill b e for arded in answer to a post - pa id ,: PJRTHS. iaxty of On the 21st inst., a t G eneva , th e H on. M rs. Woodinass, C. Woodmass, E s q., o f a sun . 11' On the 25th i ns t., a t B russe l s , L a d y S eymour, w if e 0f St s,o Seymour, Her Majesty's Envey t o th e Ki ng o f t h e :t3elg ia. " a son. Ti 3 ol o° On the 27th i ns t., i n Cumberland -terrace, the lady Of ' Hankey, Esq., o f a son . fl. On the 2Sth inst,., in Golden-cq uare , the w if e o f gr. Sumners, of a t;, o . On the 27th i ns t . , at 13erkswell Hall Mrs. Blackwe:" of daugl - ‘ iev. , On the 2Gth ir.st., at flushden Cottage, Northanapton shir lady of C. Sargeaunt, Esq., a son. O n the inst., Mrs. Thos. tiroad, 'cod, of a son, still MAR RIE D. Sel l°ll ' At Pari, Charlotte, (laughter of the late Mr. Sergeant 4 0 0 (kf Hampstead, to Jacques Amable Rermault, bibliotheoaire Conseil d'Etat Paris. On Cie 27th , inst., at Matlock, Mr. William Wrten, o f 13 1 54. ' row, to Sar a h A nn, only daughter of the late W m . S. it c ' u, of O N n ew t a lie k 2 . Sth ult., :i t S t. G eorge's, Bloomsbury, is re r Esq., of Ab er d een, to Mary n"ne, third daughter of the Hillman, Esq„ of laih~o 6 DIED. of C ar'. ? 11 ,, t . li e 2 7;,.'n inst., at Cork John Musson Asblin, Esq,,,v ~ r ~ _;n . t il ie t , 2 c G tr i t , y is+ Co:' , l t i,l l, of i il , lark-lane ; London , af i) e: l ,o ` - 'o: r it s ° " cif J. s . s ... ••, • • I- ••tte s grove, Lromp 0 I b. r° l ' er ' ,ci migeout• Esc 0 , 1a ti . , e o the 1c)to in , James Watsor, Est aged t 3, st °cl of Tfirogmerton• si rect. . i'' Go cil On th , :'_Bth ittn - ., Anne Elizabeth, wife of Esq., of Nose 13mliegton-street. ~.................... - -- NG ' 1 tY Lemlon : Printed and Paithshed by TtIURDO YOU — i ; e cool' "- 112, Strand at Me Sun Ofliee, No. 112, Strand, in t (tf Micl.tUcvx.—Thursday a August 30, 1838. William 1-1.